The branch of photography that particularly deals with the capturing shots of abandoned and desolate buildings which are normally not taken care of is called Urban Decay Photography. This particular field of photography is gaining huge popularity as it brings the beauty of the more abandoned buildings to the surface. Let’s have a look at this amazing compilation of 50 extraordinary shots of urban decay emphasizing their smashed and destroyed look. Enjoy!

This remote Romanesque-style sanatorium, with its conical turret, once housed tuberculosis patients. Though picturesque, old institutions are increasingly being converted for residential use, no one has bothered to save this particular structure deep in the Midwestern woods.

Church ruin in Norfolk, England, with a tree rising into mist, ivy on the walls, and Autumn leaves on the ground. Local myth has it that the nun who lived here was a witch with a wooden leg. After she died and was buried in the church, this tree began to grow from her grave, having sprouted from the wooden leg!

Beauty can sometimes be found in in the unlikeliest of places. Abandoned buildings can appear dark and dangerous, yet mysteriously alluring. These forgotten asylums, factories, hospitals, warehouses and other structures have been left to decay, and only reveal their secrets to those who dare to explore them. Here is a showcase of the eerie and disturbing, yet strangely beautiful sights that can be discovered when venturing into these lonely locations.

This gingerbread-trimmed train station once served summer tourists in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Since the decline of the railroad, the station sits covered in ferns with only occasional birds and insects passing through its halls.